donryanocero wrote:
I recently transferred from community college to a university and am having trouble being productive. I used to be able to get all my school work done quickly with plenty of extra time to study. Now I find myself spending hours walking around campus trying to find a quiet place to study, usually with no luck. The student disability resource center has no idea what I should do. My grades are dropping and I can feel my sanity slowly draining away. Exams are coming up and I need to get focused again. If I don't keep a 2.5 GPA this semester, I'll lose thousands of dollars of scholarships.
I live in a sparsely populated area and there are no real resources for people like me. I've recently been diagnosed and feel like I need to talk to other people who have experienced what I am experiencing. The people in positions to help me can't really understand my problems, so only offer useless suggestions.
The only thing I can think of is to sleep when I get home from school and come on campus to study in the middle of the night when no one is around.
Can anyone offer some advice?
Ryan
I'll assume you have to stay in campus all day due to classes or what not (aka not able to go home/apt to study).
Depending on your college, you could ask your professors if they have a meeting room at the major's dept. that you can use for quiet study.
Libraries in college often have quiet study rooms or better yet, soundproofed 'meeting rooms'. You may be able to use them.
Failing that, there is always the good ol' trick of finding the dept. that has the least people going in and out (in my univ. its usually the graduate studies office... very few if any MA students go by there every day. They have VERY comfy chairs and its so nice and quiet).
31 Oct 2012, 1:59 pm
